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This bug was fixed in the package nagios3 - 3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu7

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nagios3 (3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu7) artful; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY REGRESSION: event log cannot open log file (LP: #1690380)
    - debian/patches/CVE-2016-9566-regression.patch: relax permissions on
      log files in base/logging.c.

 -- Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxxx>  Wed, 07 Jun 2017
12:48:05 -0400

** Changed in: nagios3 (Ubuntu Artful)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Released

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Title:
  "Cannot open log file '/var/log/nagios3/nagios.log' for reading" error
  from nagios web UI when view alert history etc.

Status in nagios3 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in nagios3 source package in Trusty:
  Fix Released
Status in nagios3 source package in Xenial:
  Fix Released
Status in nagios3 source package in Yakkety:
  Fix Released
Status in nagios3 source package in Zesty:
  Fix Released
Status in nagios3 source package in Artful:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
  nagios3 and nagios3-cgi 3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu1.1

  If install nagios3 package and then view Alert History, Notification
  History or Events pages (and maybe others), e.g.:

  http://localhost/cgi-bin/nagios3/history.cgi?host=localhost

  Then get the following error in place of the information that should
  be there:

  Error: Cannot open log file '/var/log/nagios3/nagios.log' for reading!

  This issue:

  https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/issues/303

  ...suggests that this is caused by the fix for CVE-2016-9566:

  https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/ff22fd0de4938781edcbd48512d2494ca3c9c41a

  ...which has been back ported to 3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu1.1 according to:

  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/xenial/+source/nagios3/+changelog

  The permissions and ownership of nagios.log are:

  $ ls -l /var/log/nagios3/nagios.log
  -rw------- 1 nagios adm 189 May 12 13:45 /var/log/nagios3/nagios.log

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